By Alexander W. Astin
Praise for Cultivating the Spirit
"A groundbreaking learn of the non secular progress of faculty students.... The religious size of upper schooling has been explored from a number of angles for the earlier 20 years, yet now not formerly have we had a reliable and complete physique of knowledge equipped round well-defined dimensions of this advanced phenomenon. this can be a necessary booklet for a person in academia who cares in regards to the schooling of the complete person."
—Parker J. Palmer, writer, The middle of upper Education, A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your lifestyles Speak, and The braveness to Teach
"An very important publication for layperson alike. a gorgeous serious warning call for larger education—highly recommended!"
—Ken Wilber, writer, The vital Vision
"Cultivating the Spirit makes a distinct and critical contribution to 1 of the least tested but so much primary questions on undergraduate schooling: how scholars collect the values and convictions that aid to offer which means and goal to their lives.... The authors supply a wealth of precious findings approximately this important method and its results on pupil fulfillment, healthiness, and private development in college."
—Derek Bok, former president, Harvard collage, and writer, The Politics of Happiness
"The fruit of a decade of elegantly designed and compelling learn, Cultivating the Spirit offers well timed and critical facts for reorienting the dialog concerning the relationships between highbrow inquiry, conventional educational values, and the formation of the interior existence. Informative, sincerely written, crucial, and evocative examining for present day school throughout all institutions—public and personal, secular and religious."
—Sharon Daloz Parks, writer, Big Questions, Worthy Dreams and Leadership should be Taught
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